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The pre-acquisition version of digg.com had many similar characteristics. The current version, sadly, does not.

I guess this depends on your definition of “rich.” Not to say 106k isn’t a lot of money, but as far as engineering annual salaries goes I’d say it’s in the mid to low range.

Yes, your brain is definitely the best password manager of all. My technique:

Use a mnemonic of rhyming made-up words that are based on a childhood memory. Write it down several times, then shred/discard. Nothing sticks in your mind like a melodic rhyming phrase. The made up words can also be based on quirky phrases you maybe think to yourself and which evoke strong personal memories. To you, highly meaningful, to bots basically gibberish. It’s multi word, dictionary safe, and very secure, and has served me well for many years.

I use it as a bookmarking tool, eg for a tool I’d like to test out but don’t have time atm, an article to read later etc.

I only very infrequently experience the issues described in this article, and I definitely would not consider it torture.

Re. the other comments about robocalls, I use the "Silence unknown callers" on my iPhone and it works quite well. The only drawback is that you have to remember to disable the feature if you are expecting a call from someone who's number you don't know (eg a delivery driver.)

For me, I was mainly using the free Heroku Postgres for side projects. I tried some of those listed here but they were not a fit for me. I ended up going with cockroach db and am liking it so far, esp that I can easily create an unlimited number of clusters that are free to start. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ (I have no affiliation with cockroach labs)

I am not a cloud expert but so much of this rings true, esp the following quote:

“Why is Bob in the ops team sending the engineers a bunch of shell commands they need to run to update their dev environment to support the latest Frobnicator version? For the third time this month?”

I just couldn’t stop laughing.

I would suggest googling “Elon Musk Twitter legal speech” - this was one of the top results

https://theconversation.com/amp/if-elon-musk-succeeds-in-his...

The downvotes in response to my question seems to imply a lot of people think a Musk acquisition would be a good thing. Maybe list some of the reasons why?

I can see the headline now: “The one lone user who deleted his Twitter account after Elon Musk’s acquisition”

It really depends on if he follows through on what he is proposing, which seems to be to allow for disinformation and hate speech. If that turns out to not be the case, then I might reconsider.

If Musk acquires Twitter, I will likely be deleting my account. Am I the only one? Would his acquisition spell the beginning of the end for Twitter?

The article quotes an analyst describing Musk’s bid as the beginning of the end for Twitter as a public company. I would say it will spell the beginning of the end of Twitter period. Imo, if Musk in fact acquires Twitter, he himself and the changes he is proposing will become a poison pill resulting in droves of users abandoning it. I, for one, will certainly be one of them.

My strategy is to use whatever word with three vowels that pops into my head. Seems to work pretty well and keeps it fun.

Thanks for that tip. I am about to ship an implosion-type nuclear device and my first thought was if I could use a USPS flat rate box.

Is it possible that the solution is to look at why there is such a high frequency of commits by different devs into the same main branch?

Rather than look for a technical solution I would explore process and culture changes, such as having the various devs making all the different commits start pairing.

Thanks for sharing that video. The white noise solution is a huge improvement over the sharp beeps. I looked into if there is any movement in the US re requiring the white noise option but all I found was this non-committal response from OSHA: https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2004-...

The sharp beeping sound made by trucks backing up, and now also basically any type of construction vehicle when it moves, is in my opinion one of the great examples of a ham-handed solution to addressing a safety issue with no regard for noise pollution. While it is supposed to warn someone in the immediate vicinity of the vehicle, I can after hear these sharp alarm-like sounds over a block away, often inside my apartment with the windows closed, where I obviously am in no danger of this vehicle.

If only a bit if thought had been put into the design of this, such as having a directed sound (a physical bell?) that is clearly audible in the immediate vicinity but does not radiate long distances.

What is most frustrating to me is that it seems there is no one you can complain to, no one you can point to and say please fix this, as it obviously is based on some regulatory requirement. If only those who design these type of noise-making devices would be required to also consider noise pollution.

And don't even get me started on car alarms...

So many great personal sites - I am actually in the process of building the next version of mine and I couldn’t ask for better inspiration. Here is my current site: https://www.anders.co/

Hasn’t been updated in a while :-/

Isn’t the concept of a single staging environment becoming a bit dated? Every recent project I’ve worked on uses preview branches or deploy previews, eg what Netlify offers https://docs.netlify.com/site-deploys/deploy-previews/

Or am I missing something?

My boss at my previous company created one of these with the intention of being “helpful”. It basically stated you should address me in this manner, use this form of communication etc. I asked him if he would be ok with me also creating a similar user manual telling him how I should be communicated with. He said it would be ok, as long as it did not contradict his user manual.

IMO, these seem to me to be a friendly way of dictating process to others.

Jeff Atwood: https://blog.codinghorror.com/

There is no mention of traditionally car-centric sprawling cities such as LA or Phoenix and their biking infrastructure or lack thereof. Anyone living in such a city seeing progress on biking infrastructure?

US: New York City

God Jul!

I am no AI scientist, but as a humble software engineer it seems to me that machine consciousness is not viable within a binary computer paradigm. However, if quantum computing, which much more closely resembles the analog nature of neurons firing in the human brain, becomes commercially viable, then, yes, the singularity just might be achieved.

The Technics SL-1200 turntable. The fact that the design has not changed except for minor tweaks since the product was released speaks for itself. I used it both as a DJ many years ago and now kept one of the turntables just for listening. The quality of the turntable is palpable not only in its physical weight but in the utter simplicity of the design. The dotted edges of the rotating plate are both aesthetically pleasing while also informative communicating rotation speed. Every detail every little part of the unit is functional design of the highest quality while also visually appealing. In my view one of the greatest achievements in modern electronics and industrial design.

The answer, obviously, is 42.

Very close but not quite human. A text book example of the uncanny valley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Vermont’s law is a great first step, but also a very kid gloves approach. It appears their disclosure requirements are minimal, basically that the company exists and how to opt out. What I would love to see is a requirement to notify the party that their data is being sold. Yeah, that might be a pain, but they are after all selling something that arguably is not theirs. Does anyone know if other similar laws are in place for other states? Or are in the works?